COVID-19: Aremu wants Edo, Ondo elections postponed

Date: 2020-06-29

A former Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in Kwara State, Comrade Issa Aremu, has urged INEC to postpone the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to safeguard lives.

The labour leader, while speaking in Kaduna, said considering the huge spike in the number of COVID-19 cases and rising deaths across the country, it would be imperative for INEC to postpone the elections as only the living could vote and be voted for.

Aremu said, "The death of a former Governor of Oyo State, Senator Isiaka Ajimobi, who died of COVID-19, and the figures of fatalities reeled out daily by the NCDC show that the disease is real and is killing Nigerians.

"There are enough reasons for INEC to consider the spike in the number of cases and fatalities across the country and postpone the elections in Edo and Ondo states.

"I monitored the recent party primaries in Edo State and there was no semblance of COVID-19 protocols of physical distancing or use of face mask by either APC or PDP; not even our own LP. "INEC can take recourse to the constitution and consider the pandemic as an emergency to shift the elections in solidarity with those that have been killed by the disease and to safeguard the lives of Nigerians."

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Zulu Gambari     Kawu     Kolo     Amoyo     Shonga Farm Project     Sobi     Abubakar Usman Jos     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Ajasse-Ipo     Alore     Kolawole Bashirat     Onikijipa     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     George Innih     2017 Budget     Samuel Adaramola     Tsaragi/Share     Joana Nnazua Kolo     Abdulwahab Oba     Sidikat Akaje     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Kayode Ogunlowo     Oke-Oyi     Baba Adini Of Kwara State     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Prince Bola Ajibola     UITH     Muftau Akanbi Oke     John Dara     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Bayo Ojo     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Alao Ayotunde     Sunset Workers     Femi Ogunsola     Owo Isowo     Ladi Hassan     Eghe Igbinehin     Sayomi     Issa Oloruntogun     Valsolar-Kwara Company Limited     Rotimi Oyedepo     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Adaramaja     Cassava Growers\' Association     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Abdulazeez Uthman     Benin Republic     Yahya Mohammed     ASMAU PLAZA     Stephen Fasakin     Aso Ofi     Ojuekun Sarumi     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Nurudeen Muhammed     Bello Bature     Belgore     Abubakar Aliagan     Principal Private Secretary     Oloyede     Shade Omoniyi     Ibrahim Abdulkadir Abikan     KWSIEC     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Olatunde Michaels     Ogbondoroko     Shuaib Olarongbe     Nagode     Baaziki Sulaiman     Jelili Yusuf     Orisun Igbomina    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulkareem Alabi     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Kawu     Kazeem Adekanye     Owo Arugbo     Seun Bolaji     Code Of Conduct     Hassan A. Saliu     Dagbalodo     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Towobola Abdulrahman Toyin     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Just Event Online     Saliu Oluwole     Buari Edun     YAKOOYO     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     KWASAA     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     MATTA Girls Foundation     Sarah Alade     Ubandoma     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Mumeen Lah     Muazam Nayaya     ANCOPPS     Ahmad Fatima Bisola     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Musa Aibinu     University Road     Hakeem Lawal     Kwara 2015     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Abraham Ojo     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Zainab Abass     Okoolowo     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Ilorin International Airport     Facemasks     Falokun-Oja     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Forgo Battery     Olupako     Ilorin Central Mosque     Lawal Jimoh     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Laduba     Ita-Nmo Market     Wahab Issa     Revenue Court     Monthly Sanitation Exercise     Alagbado     Okala Baba     Tsaragi/Share     Ibrahim Mohammed     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Ibrahim Bio     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Musa Abdullahi     Magaji Erubu     Babaita     Michael Nzekwe     Tanke Road     Illyasu Abdullahi     Talaka Parapo     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Afonja